Occupy the Farm, a film about the 2012 struggle to claim 20 acres of a historic 100 acre farm for community farmers in Albany, will open at the New Parkway theatre in Oakland on Tuesday, March 31st. The University of California owns the land and it has granted one acre to the community farmers working with the University's Department of Natural Resources. Another 5 to 7 acres has been alloted to University research on corn genetics, and the rest has been promised to a big box grocery store ...

As Part of Patois film fest, we interviewed Dr Sanders, a co-producer of "A Perfect Storm," a film project collected from primary documents and personal interviews conducted in the immediate aftermath of Katrina, when New Orleans municipal schools were being seized by the state of Louisiana and the charter school movement.

Tulane Black Arts festival organizers give a preview of this year's events, including a keynote speech by Spike Lee. Conversation includes information about how the fest was planned and what participants can expect.

Teachers at about 20 Oakland public schools are working the minimum number of required hours in a labor action to protest the slow pace of contract negotiations, teacher union president Trish Gorham said Friday
Several hundred Oakland Education Association teachers as well as students and parents rallied outside an Oakland Unified School District Board meeting on Jan. 28. After they went inside, they spoke out against proposals to privatize Fremont, Castlemont and McClymonds high schools, ...

The students and activists involved in this struggle for free or freer education have left properties in wheeler and in the entrance of dwinelle. Such goods such as food and sleeping materials, art and materials, etc, have been at times unavailable due to the students thanksgiving break. Activists were verbally challenged by UCPD and told2leave Wheeler Hall after being asked if they were UCB students, despite an obvious student presense. There is one officer to begin with, dialog, and then a digital beep, which demarcates the entrance of two additional UCPD. This comical interlog of verbal rhetoric is reminiscent of the movie "Dazed and Confused." Kinda funny.

Interview with Nardo Flores, member of the Parent Committee of the 43 kidnapped students of the Normal Rural Isidro Burgos in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, Mexico. Today, November the 7th, the news published announced the arrest of 3 Guerreros Unidos members responsible for the kidnapping and presumed murder.

News and Views speaks to members of the Louisiana Defenders Collective, going over the holes in the criminal justice system that make their services necessary and the particular pressures put on juveniles in the privatization of the public school system, especially the ways formerly standard in-school behavioral problems have become criminalized.

Info about C.H.A.L.K. in SF on Settingthestandard
Mission
Communities in Harmony Advocating for Learning and Kids, or CHALK, is a San Francisco project providing a range of youth services with a specific focus on transformative youth development and employment.
CHALK's Purpose
The purpose of all of CHALK's programs is to provide information, resources and support to youth and their allies. CHALK is unique because the providers are youth.